PSYC 213 Lecture : Cognition.docx
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Divided into different mental activities = together/ interactions of faculties are. Folk psychology= we all as human beings have intuition of who we are. Scientific psychology= action/ faculty of knowing cognition (ex. How intelligence relates to perception; how memory relates to intelligence) Concerned with low level processes, high level processes, and observed behavior. The term cognition refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every [2] psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.